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DENR inaugurates solar-powered sewage plant near Manila Bay
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday unveiled a solar-powered sewage treatment plant (STP) to help address the problem with household wastewater discharge that contributes to the pollution ...
- August 1, 2020
Look: Turquoise Blue Waters of Manila Bay
The once pristine Manila Bay has long deteriorated. There were rehabilitation efforts in early 2019, but after an initial clean-up drive and desilting, the operations had been mothballed for later. No one seemed to mind. ...
- March 30, 2020
4Ps beneficiaries help protect mangrove areas
The beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) are helping protect the mangrove areas in this barangay and at the same time earning income for their ...
- February 20, 2017
Mangrove planting
Forestry officials of the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, led by Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer (CENRO) Hernan Ramirez, joined hands in undertaking ...
- March 26, 2015
Six countries in Coral Triangle Initiative gather in Dumaguete for regional exchange
Some 76 key officials and representatives from six-member nations of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) and their partners gathered in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, for ...
- September 15, 2016
DOF assures HQ's compliance with Manila Bay rehab
Ahead of the planned rehabilitation of the Manila Bay, the Department of Finance (DOF) assured that its headquarters (HQ) on Roxas Boulevard has its own sewage treatment facility (STF) that passed the waste classification ...
- January 21, 2019
Desilting of Manila Bay begins
Amphibious excavators, dumping scows, dump trucks, debris segregator, and vacuum sewer jet cleaners were deployed in Manila Bay Tuesday, the first day of dredging operations to clean up the bay. “Sagip Manila Bay,” according ...
- March 6, 2019
SC pursues its decision on Manila Bay cleanup
The Supreme Court (SC) has reconstituted its Manila Bay Advisory Committee (MBAC) which is tasked to monitor the implementation of its 2008 decisions that directed practically all government agencies, including those ion ...
- January 24, 2020
Culture change needed to restore Manila Bay
Culture change among Filipinos is needed if the polluted Manila Bay is to be restored and preserved for the long-term, according to Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu. “If they ask me what is the most ...
- February 10, 2019
ASEAN tackles mangrove management
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will try to work out a collaborative sustainable mangrove management in the region amid climate change in a Mangrove Congress September 4-8 in Manila. The Department of ...
- August 31, 2017